Author: ITPulse

By Hyther Nizam   Across the globe, The Great Resignation has become a source of concern among businesses. It refers to the unprecedented number of workers quitting their jobs in the Covid-19 and post-pandemic eras.   In Nigeria, businesses have recently seen their fair share of voluntary employee resignations. Most notable was the “big quit,” an exodus of top tech talents from Nigerian Banks. Nigerian millennials and Gen Zers, who comprise a large percentage of job-hoppers, also account for the majority of the young workforce population in the country. Now, they are re-evaluating their working experiences after the hard hit…

In a move geared toward strengthening and managing the integrity of the revenue generation process in the Nigerian telecommunications industry, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has decided to ink a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with its consultant, 3R Company Nigeria Limited. The deal, which was sealed at the Commission’s Head Office, Abuja two days ago will aid the execution of the Revenue Assurance Solutions (RAS), which is a brainchild of the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) that has been guiding the partnership implementation process to give expression to the decision to procure the Solution within a PPP framework due…

So many people have been wondering where Prof Isa Pantami has been over the last year or so and they couldn’t understand he had become enmeshed in the next level of his agenda of entrenching a proper digital society that will ensure economic transition and which will guarantee jobs and liquidity in the system. As someone who had been strategic about his mission, he phased his digital mission with the initial step being the reawakening and rebranding of the sector and that saw him renaming the sector and then identifying the right Human Resources to help drive the agenda. Afterward,…

On the occasion of his 41st birthday celebration, Joshua Ogunde, reminiscences on his career trajectory so far in the eCommerce sector and he’s excited about where he is and what the future currently holds for tech entrepreneurs and startups in Nigeria. Back in 2010, I had an idea! My friend @Tobi and I wanted to develop the first e-commerce platform in Nigeria, we admired what Amazon was doing at the time and wanted to replicate the same here in Nigeria. We did our research, asked a lot of questions, and made a lot of discoveries, however, we lacked in many…

The Afreximbank’s Pandemic Trade Impact Mitigation Facility (PATIMFA) has disbursed $150 million to Nigeria’s premier financial institution, Firstbank to support businesses in Nigeria, a statement by Firstbank has disclosed. The fund, according to the statement will be accessible to FirstBank customers that are involved in the manufacturing and importation of products and equipment required to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as initiatives to rehabilitate hospitals and strengthen diagnostic and testing capacity. The loan will also be used for the financing of trade debt payments falling due to avert payment defaults in trade debt obligations. In addition, the proceeds of…

…New TVs Boast Exclusive Quantum Dot NanoCell Color Technology for Authentic Color Reproduction and Maximum Viewer Immersion LG Electronics (LG) has begun rolling out its newest and most premium LCD TV lineup in Nigeria. Thanks to LG’s state-of-the-art Quantum Dot NanoCell color and Mini LED backlight technologies, the TV delivers a stunning viewing experience with deeper black, more accurate color reproduction with greater contrast and brightness. They’ll sit just below LG’s flagship OLED and consist of 4K QNED91 and QNED90 series models in screen sizes ranging from a spacious 75-inch to a colossal 86-inch. Featuring the company’s very own Quantum…

…Win a Washing Machine with a visit to LG Laundromat The first thing many of us do upon arriving home is to change out of the clothes we’ve been wearing all day. While once we might have simply hung those clothes in the wardrobe or even piled up for a week or more, growing concern over allergies and pollutants and the special care that is needed for garments that are made out of sensitive materials has made proper clothing care a little trickier. If you find yourself in need of a smarter way to take care of your clothes, then…

Kennedy resigned from Lifeway Developments* in 2015 as the Digital Communications Executive. Seven years later, Kennedy still has access to the corporate social media pages as well as the mailing list of the organisation. Joy is an Executive Communications Consultant. Over the past five years, she has worked with up to 10 senior executives managing their LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and in some instances – their email accounts. Periodically, she attempts to sign in to the accounts of the eight executives she no longer serves; shockingly, seven of them have not changed any of their passwords after her contract ended…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N964 million for the provision of e-Learning centres across the 36 states of Nigeria. The money, according to the government will be used to acquire satellite-based education system equipment in three primary schools in each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. In addition, 4,360 andriod tablets and 109 solar units will be deployed to support the schools. “The Minister of Education obtained council’s approval for the award of contract at the sum of N964 million for the provision of a satellite-based education system…

The Nigerian government through the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami has released new figures to show that Nigeria’s Information and Communications technology industry is growing in leaps and bounds. The Minister gives the new figures while speaking at a tea break hosted by Nigeria on the sideline of the 2022 International Telecommunication Union’s World Telecommunications Development Conference (ITU-WTDC) in Kigali-Rwanda last week. He said, currently Nigeria has active mobile lines cross 200 million mark with 42.79 percent broadband penetration. “In the last 20 years, Nigeria has achieved robust growth in its telecoms industry where it went…